Digitalized businesses powering the 4th Industrial Revolution

The industrial machinery and components industry is at the heart of the digital revolution - providing the intelligent machines and equipment as well as spearheading innovative processes like connected manufacturing and predictive maintenance and service.

Why SAP for industrial machinery & components business

SAP S/4 HANA has ready solution to help IM&C, delivers innovative products at scale and as outcome-oriented services with prepackaged offerings such as the SAP Best Practices and SAP Model Company services.

Enable personalized buying experiences for each customer by capturing feedback across the end-to-end customer journey. Focus on the most valuable customers, prioritizing production of products based on the individual importance of each customer. Incorporate feedback of how customers are experiencing services and provide transparency of the process. Increase customer loyalty with intelligent technologies to improve and simplify the customer experience

Digitalize the supply chain to foster demand-driven, collaborative supply networks Increase agility and effectiveness to support the business priority of serving the “segment of one” and implement a digital supply chain. Meet the growing demand for smart, connected business through business network collaboration and for improved customer service by using inventory strategies that dynamically respond to changes in the digital supply chain network

Integrate and embed intelligence in manufacturing processes across the digital supply chain, covering all aspects of the manufacturing cycle. Meet the need for a more demand-driven, intelligent, accurate, and efficient material requirements planning process. Gain detailed visibility of actual and target KPIs of manufacturing operation with smart factories, where manufacturers strive for a higher degree of automated production scheduling and the self-optimization of production.

Improve efficiency through execution and continuous control. Manufacturing execution for make to order includes planning, scheduling, and executing production orders to meet customer-driven demand in a timely and efficient manner.

• Increase throughput, make cycle times shorter and more predictable, and reduce work in process.
• Automated data collection enables complete as-built records, while integrated, embedded quality and compliance controls help manage exceptions and address nonconformance.
• Real-time manufacturing data throughout the product lifecycle increases visibility

Evolve services from being product add-ons to becoming offerings in their own rights with separate revenue streams. Develop services based on, and built around, smart products, the value they deliver, and the data assets they create. Gain a deep understanding of customer needs to offer pay-for-outcome models, with the ability to assess which customer is a good fit for which business model and offer services, and products as a service based on the value, they deliver to the end customer.

Transforming Finance for a Digital World. Thrive and adapt to changing business models of the modern digital world, bring together financial processes with analytics radically automated and in real-time, and translate it into forward-looking business insight across the entire corporate landscape. SAP’s innovative solutions help empower finance teams to transform into business leaders that give their corporate enterprise a competitive edge in a rapidly changing world.

Procurement Excellence in a Networked Economy Today’s procurement professionals are bombarded with increasingly complex challenges. They need to manage global supply risk and protect profitability – despite volatile pricing in many supply markets – and contribute new innovations to the business. These are just a few examples of the imperatives they face

Leverage modern analytics to ensure the success of the digital enterprise Revolutionize decision making by giving everyone the analytic capabilities they need to discover, plan, and predict better business outcomes. Help ensure trusted data discovery by combining on-premise and cloud data – without moving or replicating data. Use a fast, scalable analytics platform that leverages your existing SAP investments.

Design and deliver digital smart products to differentiate through digital capabilities and value-added services Deliver products and services that exceed customer expectations. Break down silos across engineering projects by integrating processes across functions and beyond the enterprise, accelerating product innovation with multidiscipline collaboration. Leverage intelligent technologies to ensure the best ideas are nurtured and development is requirement driven, including live feedback from products.